The Collected Works of T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, and literary and social critic. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and would settle, work and marry there. This collection includes the following: Prufrock and Other Observations Poems The Waste Land The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism